The pattern underneath
Affective empathy is parochial. It locks onto identifiable victims and underweights statistical ones. Combine that with moral identity ('I am the kind of person who never looks away') and you get unbounded helping — including helping that damages the helper, the institution, or a quieter group that never got a camera. Related research lives under pathological altruism, identifiable victim effect, and in-group/out-group empathy gaps — not under this slogan.
How the phrase gets misused
The phrase is often a permission slip to stop caring. It collapses compassion, incompetence, and political disagreement into one insult. It is also used to pathologize entire populations. That is not psychology. That is rhetoric.
A more precise frame
Name the trade-off. Keep the compassion. Add an accounting step: who else is harmed, over what time, by what mechanism. If you cannot answer, you do not have a moral insight. You have a feeling.